Spines11

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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Thanks :) It uses my own mini-framework for Google App Engine. This comment has more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916803
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Ah, didn't implement that yet. I'll get to work on that :)
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Hi SudarshanP, I voted you down because I thought it was spam, sorry. I've undone my vote now so you are back to 0. When I voted there was just one item with a link, and it looked like someone just wanted to advertise their online store. Yo
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Thanks. I'll probably write about the implementation once I get some spare time. I got a lot of great feedback today that I'll be busy implementing for a while :)
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Thanks for your advice and compliments :) I was debating between calling them "lists" or "articles", and decided on "articles" because my hope is that over time they will become full-fledged articles (true that my domain name makes that a b
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Thanks :) It's developed with the dynamic language Groovy, on Google App Engine. Here's a comment with some more details: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2916803
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   I just felt the need for that a few minutes ago, a troll overwrote all of the articles with junk text, and I had no way to easily block his IP. I'll be working on that ASAP.
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Thanks, that happened because a troll overwrote the entry for Vim with junk text, and then the people added vim because they didn't see it. I've manually merged their entries with the main vim entry.
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   by Spines11 15y ago

   Thanks :) I've seen that site before. Mine's more about creating comprehensive articles rather than just a list. Something where each item of the article has paragraph(s) of detail. Something like Paul Graham's article, "18 Mistakes that Ki
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks! I'm glad people are noticing the speed, I spent a ton of time on that :). Yep, working on it full-time.
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Should I keep the 5 star rating control for rating articles, and change the voting on items to thumbs up/down? Or should I change both the voting on items and voting on articles to thumbs up/down?
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks! Spam edits can be reverted in the history tab, there's still more work I need to do to make that easier though. Spam articles can be voted down, and that will take them off the front pages, and I can manually delete them. I'll prob
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks! I really appreciate your support :) Your other article, "Best Text Editors for Programming", is a perfect article for Listry I think. The Cambridge coffee shops one would be good if there were a lot of Listry users that lived in Ca
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    From this being the top comment, it seems everyone agrees. I'll add it to my to-do list :)
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks :). I see what you are talking about, it's because the main page is long enough to have a scrollbar, and then when you choose a category, there isn't enough content to need to show a scrollbar, right?
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    One reason could be if you wished there was good resource on a topic. For example, if you wanted to convince someone that they should develop for iOS instead of android, you could start an article on Listry titled "Reasons to develop for iO
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Hmm, thanks for the heads up, I'll have to look into that. I don't know what would be causing that.
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks! Right now the popular tab sorts things based on the votes for the article, and also the votes for the items within the article. So an article with good items can rank higher than an article with more votes, but no items. Right now t
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks :) For crap articles, people can vote them down, which will move them lower on the new articles tab and popular articles tab if they are voted low enough. Also, I can manually delete obviously crap articles, or close articles that d
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks for noticing the speed :) I spent a lot of effort on that. I built my own mini-framework for Google App Engine with a focus on speed. The main thing that makes it fast is that it utilizes public edge caching for most content, and the
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    It's very easy to set up, and it works alright. There is a delay for things to show up in the search results though. I think once app engine (which is what Listry runs on) implements full text search, I'll probably make my own solution usi
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Haha, okay. That'll be next on my TODO list :)
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    Thanks! Yea, building the community will be the tough part. I was planning on writing high quality articles on Listry and then hopefully some of the people that read the article would want to add their own input to the article and that's ho
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    This is the project I've been working on for the past 6 months. It combines the features of wikis with a voting system that determines the best parts of an article. There's still a lot of improvements I need to make, but I wanted to launch
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    Today I launched my solo project, Listry. Feedback/suggestions appreciated(listry.com)

    174 points by Spines11 15y ago|80 comments
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    My family uses it a lot, but only between family, and mostly at home. It's a more personal form of communication, so I feel like it's more likely to be used in a private space.
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    "Yeah, I don't buy that this is an invention in the 21st century, with no prior art." Maybe not in the 21st century, but it might be in the 20th century which is when the patent was filed (1996). http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?S
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    I searched for "cooking", and it returned the exact book I'm reading right now.
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    It sure seems like fair use to me, especially since he had his friend draw it, rather than deriving it from the original by putting the original through a pixelating program or something. It's sad that since the potential losses of going to
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    by Spines11 15y ago

    It seems like you don't have to write any extra code to become a Chrome Web Store app. "Installing" the DayZipping app just puts an icon on your home page that is a link to dayzipping.com. This seems like a good way to get some free traffic